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What more can I be doing in terms of SEO for my Blog?

by FreeMeal
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I have a blog in the Health niche. The domain name's about 3 or 4 months months old, and I've been updating it with regular content/posts for the last 2 months (one post per week at least).

In terms of my SEO routine, every article I post, once it's indexed by google, I then submit to about 10 article directories (the usual big ones EzineArticles etc). They usually get a little syndication from that, nothing spectacular, mostly crappy blogs without any page rank.

After this, I convert my article to a fairly professional looking pdf and submit it to about 5 or 6 of those document sharing sites such as docstock etc.

I do the usually social bookmarking to the big networks (about 5 of them). Just recently started using socialmonkee again after forgetting I had an account there.

I post a shorter spun version of the article (a good quality spin) to about 6 or 7 web 2.0 blogs. Admittedly I sometimes miss this part out due to a little laziness on my part.

I have a BMR account so I usually make about ten submissions there for each separate article/post too. Although I don't want to rely on BMR too much as part of my backlink strategy.

As a result of all that procedure, my pages/posts usually plateau around the second page of Google SERP's for what I think I would consider medium competition keywords.

I would like to know what else I could be doing, what other things can I include in my procedure to maybe push my posts a little further up the results? Also, will my posts become easier to rank over time, as my blog gains more authority?

I'm on a mac so I don't really have the option to use a lot of the software that others use, so it all needs to be done manually.

Thanks in advance for any advice here.
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  • Profile picture of the author maxrezn
    Are you sure that you are using all unique content throughout? You shouldn't have the same article on your site and on Ezine...that's dangerous territory.

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  • Profile picture of the author thatkeywordguy
    Its usually not recommended to submit your onsite content to various directories. Typically these days, you'd want your onsite content to be unique
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  • Profile picture of the author Pyramid Linkers
    Originally Posted by FreeMeal View Post

    I have a blog in the Health niche. The domain name's about 3 or 4 months months old, and I've been updating it with regular content/posts for the last 2 months (one post per week at least).

    In terms of my SEO routine, every article I post, once it's indexed by google, I then submit to about 10 article directories (the usual big ones EzineArticles etc). They usually get a little syndication from that, nothing spectacular, mostly crappy blogs without any page rank.

    After this, I convert my article to a fairly professional looking pdf and submit it to about 5 or 6 of those document sharing sites such as docstock etc.

    I do the usually social bookmarking to the big networks (about 5 of them). Just recently started using socialmonkee again after forgetting I had an account there.

    I post a shorter spun version of the article (a good quality spin) to about 6 or 7 web 2.0 blogs. Admittedly I sometimes miss this part out due to a little laziness on my part.

    I have a BMR account so I usually make about ten submissions there for each separate article/post too. Although I don't want to rely on BMR too much as part of my backlink strategy.

    As a result of all that procedure, my pages/posts usually plateau around the second page of Google SERP's for what I think I would consider medium competition keywords.

    I would like to know what else I could be doing, what other things can I include in my procedure to maybe push my posts a little further up the results? Also, will my posts become easier to rank over time, as my blog gains more authority?

    I'm on a mac so I don't really have the option to use a lot of the software that others use, so it all needs to be done manually.

    Thanks in advance for any advice here.
    Take another look at your onsite SEO. Make sure your content is keyword dense and your title, meta and header tags are set. If you've done that, then thats a great start.

    With that said, you will need a more consistent link building routine. For the majority of my sites, if I've done effective onsite SEO and I build quality links every day for three months, I am on the first page in one of the first three positions. Sporadic link building won't cut it. Building a ton of links a week after a post is up won't cut it most of the time. Drip feeding a ton of links won't do it for you. You're gonna have to be consistent with your link building to rank those pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author markhere
    I would recommend doing a press release submission for you site for the main keyword term
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  • Profile picture of the author FreeMeal
    So is re-using my content a bad idea then? I was under the impression it was ok as it is considered "syndicated" copy, ranther than duplicate.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pyramid Linkers
    Syndication may be a great idea for blogs that have already gained Google's trust (which can take years in some instances), but for your scenario, you really don't want multiple versions of your content floating around the internet.

    The whole purpose of article marketing is to stengthen the authority of your page so the search engines will consider it the most relevant on the topic. By increasing the number of pages with the exact same content, you are indirectly increasing your competition and most likely making it more difficult for you to rank your page.
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  • Profile picture of the author dotnetappdevelopment
    Optimize your blogs for Search Engines is to keep it simple. Start with worth content on a specific topic and then twist it using the best current advice going around.
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